Note 804 — ON INJURIES OF THE HEAD.

The text in the beginning of this paragraph is in a very unsatisfactory state. It seems pretty clear, however, that in this place our author describes caries of the bone brought on by an unhealthy state of the integuments. The description—allowance being made for the corruption of the text—is sufficiently distinct, and most probably has reference to that condition of the parts which is so graphically described by Pott as forming “a puffy, circumscribed, indolent tumour of the scalp, and a spontaneous separation of the pericranium from the skull under such tumour.”